Co-op to host film screening, discussion as part of new Community Conversation series

Sunday, July 21, 6 – 8:30 p.m. Odd Fellows Hall

— from Susannah Weaver for Orcas Food Co-op —

Join Orcas Food Co-op in an exploration of co-op models and what co-op member participation can mean. It’s free and everyone is welcome.

This event is the second of a new Community Conversation series hosted by the Orcas Food Co-op. Light food and refreshments will be provided. The film will show from 6 – 7:30 p.m. and will be followed by facilitated discussion.

After the event, people are encouraged to head over to the stage on the green to kick off the Orcas Island Film Festival summer film series. The film Amazing Grace will begin at 8:30 p.m.

From the Food Co-op Film website – “The most successful supermarket in New York City has zero customers and 17,000 workers. Every day in Brooklyn, hundreds of busy New Yorkers walk past Whole Foods or dozens of other grocery stores promoting natural and organic foods to work at a small supermarket that does no marketing and never holds sales—and yet makes more money per square foot than any other grocery store in New York City. The secret of the Park Slope Food Co-op’s more than 40 years of success is simple: to shop there, all 17,000 members—rich and poor, old and young, from every culture and race in the city—have to put in three hours a month of work.

In his first feature-length documentary, FOOD COOP, American-born, Paris-based director Tom Boothe brings wit, insight, and a critical but passionate eye to the story of an American institution, built on pragmatic idealism, that has become a beacon for Europe.

FOOD COOP explores how ordinary people working together can upend the received wisdom of corporate America.

Well reviewed and widely seen in theaters in Europe, FOOD COOP has started a wave of cooperative food distribution initiatives, with groups in more than 50 cities, including Brussels, Paris, Madrid, Stockholm, and Parma, now working on recreating what they’ve seen in the film.”

FREE – Everyone Welcome. Light snacks and refreshments provided. Presented by the Orcas Food Co-op Sunday July 21 6 – 8:30 p.m., Odd Fellows Hall. Film screening 6 – 7:30 p.m. and discussion 7:30 – 8:30 p.m. Learn more and watch the Food Co-op film trailer at https://foodcoop.film/. For more info contact: marketing@orcasfood.coop.